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abacus

/ab-uh-kuhs, uh-bak-uhs/US // ˈæb ə kəs, əˈbæk əs //UK // (ˈæbəkəs) //

算盘,算盘子,算术

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ab·a·cus·es, ab·a·ci [ab-uh-sahy, -kahy, uh-bak-ahy]. /ˈæb əˌsaɪ, -ˌkaɪ, əˈbæk aɪ/.

    • : a device for making arithmetic calculations, consisting of a frame set with rods on which balls or beads are moved.
    • : Architecture. a slab forming the top of the capital of a column.

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Examples

  • I may as well have given them an abacus and asked them to do algebra.

  • Generally speaking, the abacus is more impressive, or at least more potentially useful.

  • This is like the difference between building a stick-in-the-ground sundial versus a comparatively more complex accounting tool like an abacus, as one head of quantum research at a major Wall Street bank put it to me.

  • Thus, Goldman found them a willing buyer for the junk piled into Abacus.

  • But Abacus and similar deals were already sucking money out of Rhineland, according to a person familiar with the matter.

  • Every Asian capital is like a giant abacus, constantly calculating the relative power of competing states.

  • The height of the abacus is one seventh of the height of the capital.

  • The flowers on the four sides are to be made as large as the height of the abacus.

  • The abacus has a width equivalent to the thickness of the bottom of a column.

  • It is further distinguished by the use of the zero, which enabled the computer to dispense with the columns of the Abacus.

  • Our next idea would be to put a conical shaped stone beneath this abacus, to support its outer edge, as at b.